Day 3 - Session Listing

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Day 3 - December 2, 2009

SCIENCE AND THE GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMONS

These sessions will explore the interplay of the Antarctic Treaty and other international institutions that are being adopted to manage human activities on a planetary scale, consider the lessons from the Antarctic Treaty, and recognize the importance of science in providing a sound basis for managing our future.

PLENARY 6 - INSTITUTIONAL INTERPLAY: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE ANTARCTIC TREATY SYSTEM AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL REGIMES

Chaired by Professor Takashi Yamanouchi (Japan)

Ocean Dumping and the Antarctic: Tangled Legal Currents, Sea of Challenges
- Professor David VanderZwaag (Chair of Ocean Law and Governance, Dalhousie University, Canada)
Natural Resources: International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
- Dr. Nicola Grandy (Secretary, International Whaling Commission, United Kingdom)
Global Change: Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
- Dr. Stephen Anderson (Co-Chair, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol, United States)

PANEL 6 - Interactive Panel Discussion with Questions from the Audience

Chaired by Professor Takashi Yamanouchi (Japan)

PANELLISTS - His Excellency Ambassador. Jorge Berguño (Council for Antarctic Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Former Ambassador to the United Nations, Chile) , Dr. Nicola Grandy (Secretary, International Whaling Commission, United Kingdom) , Dr. Stephen Anderson (Co-Chair, Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol, United States) , Professor David VanderZwaag (Chair of Ocean Law and Governance, Dalhousie University, Canada) , Professor Hanling Wang (International Law and Marine Affairs, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China)

YOUNG SCHOLAR ESSAY - 2nd Place Winner of the APECS Essay Contest

PLENARY 7 - GOVERNING INTERNATIONAL SPACES: LESSONS FROM ANTARCTICA

Chaired by Professor Oran Young (Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara and Chair of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, United States)

Outer Space as International Space
- Professor Armel Kerrest (Head, Department of Public Law, University of Western Brittany, France)
Earth System Information and Common Concerns of Humanity
- Dr. Robert Chen (Director, Center for International Earth System Information Network at Columbia University; Secretary General, Committee on Data for Science and Technology, United States)
Common Interests in the Oceans
- Rüdiger Wolfrum (Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Former President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Germany)

SUMMIT PLENARY SYNTHESIS - ANTARCTICA AND GLOBAL STEWARDSHIP

Chaired by Dr. Robert Corell (Director Global Change Program, H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment and Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Arctic Council and International Arctic Science Committee, United States)

PANELLISTS - Mr. James Barnes (Executive Director, Antarctic Southern Ocean Coalition, France) , Professor Christopher Joyner (Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University, United States) , Ambassador Helena Odmark (Ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic, Senior Arctic Official of Sweden, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden) , Professor Jörn Thiede (Former Director, Alfred-Wegener Institutes for Polar and Marine Research, Germany; Former President, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Germany)

Antarctic Treaty Summit 2009